Thousands returned to the streets of Tirana for the 2nd day of protests after the 25-year-old Klodian Rasha was murdered by police for buying cigarettes past curfew. Several fires were set and many barricades were burnt, with far more violent clashes with police occurring. Tear gas was deployed, as well as police brutality including the use of rubber bullets and tear gas.
Several protesters were killed in Islamabad after Pakistani police opened fire on striking government workers with expired tear gas bought from India. Many died in hospitals after the thousands pouring in caused a critical lack of oxygen and basic first aid for those injured by the expired tear gas which causes much more combustion and harm to the lungs.
Hundreds of Slovanian anarchists & autonomists took to the streets of Ljubljana after the eviction of the Rog autonomous factory, demanding that the state halt eviction of squats as well as of civilian homes during the pandemic. Police deployed tear gas against the demonstration and arrested several protesters, forcing the rest to disperse.
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Encarnación, the 3rd-largest city in all of Paraguay, demanding the government’s resignation after the collapse of the healthcare system, with medicine at a critically low level and elective surgeries stopped altogether. Demonstrators gathered at the Plaza de Armas in the Colorado District, burning barricades and singing chants against the standing regime.
Dozens of members of the Anarchist Political Organization gathered at the municipal doctor’s office of Kypseli, a neighborhood of Athens, to demand free food, housing, education, and healthcare for all. Protesters dropped a banner at the site and distributed leaflets in the area to avoid contact with police.
